Adolescent Reactions to Parental Cancer: Strategies for Providing Support
By Victoria Rizzo, L.C.S.W.-R, Ph.D., and Kristen Kirkland, M.S.W.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 12, Number 4, 2005, Pages 10-12, Item# A124-RIZZO
However, there is a small body of literature devoted to the impact of parental cancer on adolescent behaviors. The authors conducted a review of the literature in this area to examine the current state of knowledge regarding adolescents and their experiences when a parent has cancer.
The behaviors and reactions of adolescents are summarized and current interventions to help adolescents whose parents are seriously ill are highlighted. Gaps in the existing knowledge and implications for practice and research will also be discussed.
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Adolescents With Ill Parents
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 12, Number 4, 2005
It has been estimated that as many as 5-15% of children and adolescents have parents who suffer from a significant medical condition. Living with an ill parent can affect youth in a number of ways, ranging from ill parents' lack of energy, to increased expectations for the adolescents, to loss of wages and famancial crisis. This issue takes a look at the lives of youth with ill parents.
This issue also featured these articles:
- • Adolescent Reactions to Parental Cancer: Strategies for Providing Support, Pages 10-12
- • Adolescents Coping with Non-Terminal Parental Cancer, Pages 7-9
- • HIV-Affected Adolescents: Vulnerabilities and Protective Factors, Pages 13-16
- • Parental Illness and Adolescent Development, Pages 3-6
- • Traumatic Stress in Adolescents Anticipating Parental Death, Pages 17-20
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